Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
Genus species | Heterochroa microphylla Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A.Mey. |
Bibliography | Enum. Pl. Nov. 1: 92 (1841) |
Native Range | Central Asia |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | scree and moraines |
Description | stems numerous, thin, densely leafy, strigose, leaves elliptic, thickish, 4-6mm, sessile, obtuse, ciliate, flowers in terminal raceme, calyx campanulate, petals obovate |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, sunny site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Gypsophila microphylla (Schrenk) Fenzl |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) |